"This eye-catching specimens may be the longest ever to be auctioned piece coprolites (feces of petrified dinosaur)," the auction description IMChait auction, wrote, "This very long grape-like fossils It has a light brown yellow look and a very subtle texture. "

For those of you who have never had to describe fossilized, possibly-dinosaur poo, botryoidal means globular and comes from the Greek word botrus meaning a bunch of grapes.

If you've never had this description may be dinosaur dung fossils, "botryoidal" meaning of the word is spherical. It comes from the Greek "botrus", meaning a bunch of grapes.

The specimen will be "presented in four sections, each with a heavy black marble custom base, an eye-watering 40-inches in length overall."

This specimen will be "divided into four parts on display, each will be placed on a custom black marble base, length 40 inches, remarkable."

Despite their innate weirdness, coprolites and paleofeces (fossilized human faeces) are rich sources of information for archaeologists and were alsoinvaluable at the time of their creation: dinosaur droppings provided the fertilizer necessary to keep those prehistoric jungles looking green and lush.

In addition to its own singular, coprolites and ancient fossils of human feces can provide a lot of information to archaeologists. In addition, they are also priceless in ancient times: prehistoric dinosaur dung is to make dense jungle growth fertilizer.

Coprolites have been used for everything from dating the timeline of certain species to proving the existence of cannibalism in ancient human cultures (thanks to the discovery of human proteins in unearthed paleofeces).

From year to determine the survival of the species found in ancient human cannibal practices (thanks unearthed ancient fossilized human faeces found in human proteins), coprolites usefulness is very extensive.

The 40-inch sample seen above will actually go on sale alongside five other stool-shaped specimens that to have come from a Miocene-era turtle, each of which is estimated to sell for $ 4,000 to $ 6,000.

40 inches above the specimen will and other five Miocene turtle-shaped stool specimens sold together, the price of which five specimens of 4 1000-6 one thousand US dollars each.